There can be advantages to choosing a lightweight editor over a fully featured traditional IDE. They aren't traditional IDEs, but they can fit the bill beautifully when customised correctly. Remember our Swiss army knife analogy from earlier? I think it's even more applicable here! Sublime Text 3, Coda 2, and Atom are excellent examples of these types of IDEs. So why include them at all in our list? Well, these particular editors have become extremely popular for web development and have strong user communities behind them which have driven forward an entire array of packages, extensions, and add-ons that actually go a long way to transforming them from just editors into very usable IDEs. You may have noticed that some of the 'IDEs' we'll be covering in this tutorial aren't really IDEs at all, at first glance, but are editors masquerading as IDEs. The more features from the above list that are built in to an application, or available as an add-on, the closer it comes to being an IDE. And if you asked a dozen different developers for their must-have IDE features, you'd likely get widely varying responses. There aren't any hard and fast rules as to what defines an IDE exactly.
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